On 2009-Aug-26 03:41:51 -0700, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Aug 26, 4:19 am, Gonzalo Tornaria <torna...@math.utexas.edu> wrote: >> Any thoughts about using Sage in elementary school?
Sage is an excellent tool for taking the drugery out of doing maths but elementary school is more about the fundamentals of arithmetic. Sage (or any pocket calculator) can do '14+17' but I would be really concerned about a generation of children who couldn't solve '14+17' _without_ a pocket calculator. >> I think a great >> project would be to connect the power of Sage with the ubiquity of the >> OLPC. ... >Is it true that Python is the featured programming language on the XO? Yes. >I mean, easy to access and used in education? I'm not sure how visible it is to the children though. > Due to the XO >constraints, sympy might be better to look into as a local library for >maths. Sage might be better as a central server and all access it >though the web. Since they are similar, there is a huge convergence >effect in both directions. I tend to agree - the XO laptop has very limited RAM, flash and processing capacity and a local Sage would probably overwhelm it. There is an associated XO server and I feel that would be a more logical location for Sage (in notebook format). -- Peter Jeremy
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